Changeset 1868

Timestamp:

06/09/12 06:52:52 (11 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

State that the q in qvalues is case-sensitive. Addresses #378

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p1-messaging.html (modified) (1 diff)
• p1-messaging.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• p2-semantics.html (modified) (1 diff)
• p2-semantics.xml (modified) (1 diff)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.html

@@ -1662 +1662 @@
          that a client can be assured of buffering the entire response.
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.7">When multiple transfer-codings are acceptable, the client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> rank the codings by preference using a "q" parameter (similar to the qvalues used in content negotiation fields, <a href="p2-semantics.html#quality.values" title="Quality Values">Section 6.3.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.11"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>). The rank value is a real number in the range 0 through 1, where 0.001 is the least preferred and 1 is the most preferred;
+      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.7">When multiple transfer-codings are acceptable, the client <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> rank the codings by preference using a case-insensitive "q" parameter (similar to the qvalues used in content negotiation
+         fields, <a href="p2-semantics.html#quality.values" title="Quality Values">Section 6.3.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.11"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>). The rank value is a real number in the range 0 through 1, where 0.001 is the least preferred and 1 is the most preferred;
          a value of 0 means "not acceptable".
       </p>

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

@@ -2083 +2083 @@
 <t>
    When multiple transfer-codings are acceptable, the client &MAY; rank the
-   codings by preference using a "q" parameter (similar to the qvalues
-   used in content negotiation fields, &qvalue;). The rank value is a real
-   number in the range 0 through 1, where 0.001 is the least preferred and
-   1 is the most preferred; a value of 0 means "not acceptable".
+   codings by preference using a case-insensitive "q" parameter (similar to
+   the qvalues used in content negotiation fields, &qvalue;). The rank value
+   is a real number in the range 0 through 1, where 0.001 is the least
+   preferred and 1 is the most preferred; a value of 0 means "not acceptable".
 </t>
 <t>

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html

@@ -1766 +1766 @@
       </div>
       <h3 id="rfc.section.6.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.6.3.1">6.3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="quality.values" href="#quality.values">Quality Values</a></h3>
-      <p id="rfc.section.6.3.1.p.1">Many of the request header fields for proactive content negotiation use a common parameter, named "q", to assign a relative
-         "weight" to the preference for that associated kind of content. This weight is referred to as a "quality value" (or "qvalue")
-         because the same parameter name is often used within server configurations to assign a weight to the relative quality of the
-         various representations that can be selected for a resource.
+      <p id="rfc.section.6.3.1.p.1">Many of the request header fields for proactive content negotiation use a common parameter, named "q" (case-insensitive),
+         to assign a relative "weight" to the preference for that associated kind of content. This weight is referred to as a "quality
+         value" (or "qvalue") because the same parameter name is often used within server configurations to assign a weight to the
+         relative quality of the various representations that can be selected for a resource.
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.6.3.1.p.2">The weight is normalized to a real number in the range 0 through 1, where 0.001 is the least preferred and 1 is the most preferred;

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

@@ -1822 +1822 @@
 <t>
    Many of the request header fields for proactive content negotiation
-   use a common parameter, named "q", to assign a relative "weight" to the
-   preference for that associated kind of content.
+   use a common parameter, named "q" (case-insensitive), to assign a relative
+   "weight" to the preference for that associated kind of content.
    This weight is referred to as a "quality value" (or "qvalue") because
    the same parameter name is often used within server configurations to